§ MR. FORTESCUE FLANNERY (Yorkshire, Shipley)I beg to ask the First Lord of the Treasury if his attention has been called to the Message received by this House on the 22nd instant that in another place a Bill has been passed, intituled, "An Act to provide facilities for the Acquisition, by Working Men of their own Dwellings"; and whether he will give facilities for the passage this Session of the same Bill through this House?
§ SIR HOWARD VINCENT (Sheffield Central)I beg to ask the First Lord of the Treasury if his attention has been called to the fact that for the second time the Upper House has this year unanimously passed, on the initiative of the Marquess of Londonderry, a Bill to facilitate the acquisition by working men of their own dwellings, and sent it down for the approbation of the House of Commons; and if, having regard to the circumstance that in two Parliaments a like Measure has been introduced into this House and supported by Her Majesty's Government, passed a Second Reading by a large majority, he will, bearing in mind the importance attached to the Measure by working men, put the Lords' Bill down for such an early day as will insure its enactment in the course of the present Session?
§ THE FIRST LORD OF THE TREASURYThe object of the Bill is one with which everybody must sympathise, and it well deserves consideration by the House. ["Hear, hear!"] At the same time, I am not in a position to promise, at the present juncture any Government time in the course of the Session for its discussion.